Today I attended some sessions with Microsoft product groups (particularly Scott Guthrie and Michael Leworthy).
First of all, let me say that these guys are really dynamic!
We started off the day with learning more about the ObjectDataSource, which will make my job much, much easier now that I can
bind directly to objects instead of passing a datatable (or view) all the way up from the DAL to the UI.
Then I switched gears and went over to VS2005 Team System with Michael Leworthy for a talk on Mission Critical Development.
It was a great talk about the product and we found that we followed some of the same procedures during our migration. I posted my question/suggestion on
auto locking some files on automatic checkout, but not others (which just makes intuitive sense that we should be able to do that but is not there).
Then I learned about how the .NET 2.0 Framework has improved Asynchronous Programming to make it more approachable this time.
I learned that not using multiple threads could hold up the ASP.NET worker process on long running queries.
And that was for all requests coming through the pipe...
Omar Khan validated my thoughts and our steps for migration from ASP.NET 1.x to ASP.NET 2.0.
His model for migration followed the same methodology that ours did so he really validated what we have done and are doing, which is great!
The last presentation I went attended today was with Scott Guthrie (the father of ASP.NET).
He went over some tips and tricks for ASP.NET 2.0 (slides and samples are here).
So now I go grab a T-Shirt (the "official" conference T-Shirt to add to the 12 T-shirts I swiped from vendors the night before) during the T-Shirt giveaway.
It's really interesting how lunch is served in the back of this little hall where the vendors are, and for some reason all of the extracuricular activities take place there as well.
It can't possibly be because it makes us walk through the sea of exhibitors could it?
Update: I apparently missed a T-Shirt from Telerik that was great although I don't think I would be allowed to wear it in public. I won't
tell you exactly what it said, but it made a reference to both coding and sex. :)
I decided I would go to one of the hundred dollar a plate restaraunts for dinner tonight. That was only because there were no cheaper restauraunts at this resort.
So I sit down and I am looking at this menu trying to decide what I can order that will fill me up, won't make me look like a cheap bastard (for once), and
"might" be covered by the office once I get back. So I end up ordering something that will let me sample the different types of seafood that they have there.
Because it has rice in it (and I ate up all the free?! bread), I can't finish it. So I get a to-go box wondering how I will store it in the room.
The last thing I attended today was the Microsoft "Unplugged" Session where we could ask questions of the Microsoft Teams that were present.
It was kept kind of lighthearted, but a lot of good points and issues were brought to light for Microsoft, some they may not have identified or
were given feedback on.
After I left the "Unplugged" session, I immediately went upstairs and downloaded many of the new toolsets that I learned about during the last two days.
That included Atlas and Fiddler (of all things), samples of code from different sessions, etc. Then I programmed until like 1AM in the morning.
This is going to hurt tomorrow...